Media & Speaking

Redesigning Work. Unlocking Innovation. Humanizing the AI Era.

About Tana Plewes

MA, Author, Systems Analyst & Founder of DCE

Tana Plewes is a human-centered business systems strategist and the author of The Possibility Process. With over 30 years of experience, she helps leaders and organizations fix broken systems that stifle human potential and redesign work for innovation and measurable impact.

Tana is known for her story-driven talks and actionable frameworks, guiding audiences to transform tolerations into signposts for organizational change. Her work bridges leadership, operational design, and AI adaptation—helping organizations thrive in the face of change.

About Tana Plewes

MA, Author, Systems Analyst & Founder of DCE

Talks & Presentations

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These aren’t just one-off keynotes. Our talks are designed as a system.

Why? Because lasting change requires more than inspiration. A system-level approach deepens understanding and creates an intentional learning path.

Each audience stream is anchored by a flagship keynote, supported by related sessions and facilitated conversations that address the core themes shaping organizational performance in 2026. This gives event planners flexible ways to design learning experiences that actually stick.

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Our Core Themes

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The Invisible Weight of Responsibility

Why capable people get tired without knowing why.

Discover how to identify hidden responsibilities carried by team members instead of through system design.

Ideal for: Conference keynote for individual contributors and managers, leadership programs.

When Relationships Become the Constraint

A framework for deciding when to renew — and when to complete.

Recognize when a working relationship has become unworkable, and what to do about it.

Ideal for: Closed-door sessions, board retreats and executive programs.

The Power of Alignment: From Chaos to Clarity

Why fixing visible problems rarely fixes what's actually wrong.

Learn how to diagnose the underlying misalignment between people, processes, and patterns that generate persistent chaos.

Ideal for: Flagship keynote for leaders and teams, transformation programs, strategy sessions.

From Heroics to Leverage

When working harder stops working.

Identify where your effort is compensating for gaps in system design, and discover how structures, incentives and patterns shape outcomes. Learn how to design systems that sustainably deliver high-quality experiences, without burning people out.

Ideal for: Business summits, executive programs, growth-stage leadership forums.

Seeing the System You're Standing In

Why clarity begins before action.

Turn effort, conflict, and repetition into design insights by recognizing what's really shaping outcomes—moving beyond blame to better solutions.

Ideal for: Think Tanks, strategy off-sites, executive diagnostics.

Responsibility Without Authority

Why systems drift and how stewardship restores power to decision-making.

Explore how to realign authority, responsibility, and consequence to restore stewardship and legacy.

Ideal for: Board retreats, governance forums, public sector leadership programs, Think Tanks.

BOOK

The Possibility Process

At the root of most operational headaches are people issues: recruitment, engagement, performance, and retention. These aren't people issues at all — they are system gaps. The Possibility Process: A Proven Method to Achieve Breakthrough Business Results delivers a refreshing new vision that changes the game when it comes to leading people and producing optimal outcomes in business.

Tana Plewes provides tools to overcome blockages and create systems that serve your business, and everyone who is impacted by it, far into the future. Systems leadership is a cost-effective solution to operational problems that offers compounding benefits over time. It's the missing ingredient in businesses that struggle to get ahead, innovate and grow.

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PODCAST

Lead With Possibility

A live thinking room for leaders who want to get to the root of what's really shaping their results.

Co-hosted by Tana Plewes, a business systems designer and leadership strategist, and Shawn Bonnough, a vision and mission storyteller, Lead with Possibility translates complexity into clarity. Together, they explore how people, power, language, and patterns shape the health of organizations—going beyond "what to do" and into "what's actually happening".

Whether you're a professional carrying invisible responsibility, a family business leader navigating legacy and succession, or a board member responsible for the long-term health of complex systems, this show offers practical ways to see recurring issues not as personal failures, but as design opportunities—and to lead with clarity instead of burnout.

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Where business systems design meets the real work of leadership.

Explore the patterns beneath business owner burnout, entrepreneur overwhelm, stuck growth, and toxic workplace dynamics. We tackle the challenges that don't show up on dashboards: power dynamics, unspoken agreements, recurring problems, and the invisible structures shaping organizational health. Subscribe for the Lead with Possibility podcast and content that helps you diagnose what's actually happening before trying to fix it.

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Audience Streams

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Founders, Professionals & Service-Based Businesses

For entrepreneurs, owner-operators, and professionals navigating growth, complexity, and capacity constraints.

Flagship Keynote

The Power of Alignment: From Chaos to Clarity

Why visible fixes rarely create lasting change—and how alignment across people, processes, and patterns restores momentum during growth, disruption, or transition.

Supporting Sessions

From Heroics to Leverage: Why hardworking leaders burn out while results stagnate—and how leverage comes from system design, not personal sacrifice.

The Invisible Weight of Responsibility: Explores moral fatigue, decision overload, and the unseen emotional load leaders carry when systems are misaligned.

Seeing the System You're Standing In: Helps leaders recognize the invisible dynamics beneath org charts and software.

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Boards, Nonprofit & Family Business Associations

For boards, governance bodies, and intergenerational enterprises balancing performance, stewardship, and continuity.

Flagship Keynote

From Heroics to Leverage

How over-functioning, unclear roles, and informal authority structures quietly undermine sustainability—and how systems restore resilience.

Supporting Sessions

When Governance Fails Quietly: How collapsed authority, role confusion, and well-intended over-functioning erode sovereignty, agency, and trust.

Sovereignty, Agency, and Freedom in Organizations: Clarifies three commonly collapsed concepts and shows how organizational design unintentionally erodes them.

When Relationships Become the Constraint: A leadership framework for deciding when to renew and when to complete.

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Public Sector, Economic Development & Community Systems

For public service leaders, economic developers, and institutions working across complexity, accountability, and diverse stakeholder needs.

Flagship Keynote

Leading with Possibility

A unifying keynote for public-facing systems navigating change, trust, and long-term impact.

Supporting Sessions

The Possibility Heatmap: A 360° Business Performance System:
A diagnostic and predictive framework that combines data with human insight.

Building Better Business Bonds: Trust-building across community, industry, and institutions using practical observation and conversation frameworks.

Seeing the System You’re Standing In: Recognize systemic patterns and explore tools to recognize systemic patterns so they can redesign structures rather than blame individuals.

Facilitating Effective Meetings (as System Design): Uses facilitation as a case study for adult learning, accountability, and operational clarity.